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/-^■p^ QiS] New York State Education Department 

Ce^aipulsory Attendance Division 

James D. Sullivan Chief 



Albany NY. Oct, 12, 1905 

CIRCULAR OF INFORMATION RELATING TO THE 
ISSUANCE OF SCHOOL RECORD CERTIFICATES 

Section 5 of the amended compulsory education law provides: 

That it shall be imlawful for any person, firm or corporation to 
employ any child between 14 and 16 years of age who does not, 
at the time of such employment, present a certificate signed by 
the superintendent of schools or by the principal or the principal 
teacher of the city or district in which the child resides or by the 
principal or the principal teacher of the school where the child has 
attended or is attending, or by such other officer as the school 
authorities may designate, certifying that such child during the 
12 months next preceding his 14th birthday or during the 12 
months next preceding his application for such certificate, has 
attended for not less than 130 days the public schools, or schools 
having an elementary course equivalent thereto, in such city or 
district and that such child can read and write easy English prose 
and is familiar with the fundamental operations of arithmetic. 

In certain communities, often without even the knowledge 
of the superintendent or principal, subordinate teachers, members 
of school boards and others have issued "school record" certificates. 
Such practice has led to confusion and in many instances to grave 
abuses ; therefore this Department directs that in the future record 
certificates shall be issued only as indicated in the three following 
subdivisions : 

1 The superintendent of schools of a city or district may issue 
record certificates and so long as said city or district has an acting 
superintendent no other person is authorized to issue therein such 
certificates. 

2 If the city or district is not under a superintendent then 
the principal or principal teacher of said city or district is author- 
ized to issue such certificates, and no other person is authorized 
to do so. 

3 If a city or district at any time, as may occur during vaca- 
tion period, is without a superintendent or principal or principal 

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teacher, then the certificate may be issued by "such other officer 
as the school authorities may designate." 

An exact record of all certificates issued shall be kept on file. 
Such record in part should contain the name, age and residence of 
each child to whom a certificate was granted with the number 
of days attendance credited to each within the period prescribed 
in the statute ; also the date on which the certificate was issued. 

Hereafter superintendents and principals will be required to 
include in their annual report to this Department the number of 
record certificates issued and other information relative thereto. 



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